Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-08
X FEMALE BROKER ]!
HER PECULIAR FINANCIAL TRANS
 ACTIONS RESULT IN ARREST.

ACTIONS RESULT IN ARREST. Tho Career of a Handsome swindler Who
 Convinced Confding Plungers of Her Own
 Sex That She Could Guarantee Fabulous
 Returns from HIeager Investments.
 NEW YORK, Dec. s.-Inspector Byrnes last -y ui g ,iayed the host 10 an unusually charming z pl isoner Mrs. Mariana La Touche. She is Il Inl brunette of charming manners and ad r,s>. The inspector was Chester fieldan in is we come to her. Yet she ", Il '; not ;ai to linn at first on the sub- jec $ i i.i.ii he was interested The con- test O. O .ie::t SIS b.tween the gentlemanly detrc.iv. |; Ii tn. charming lady prisoner was II It iicr being locked up.
 Mir Ll Toucle was arrested at her otf1ce, 165 W Tv..,ty-t!,ird street, where, behind n,a ...... sign of Banker and Broker" she nue. :, il, t little business with women who irc ready to believe that $50 month income on Il investment of $500 is quite an easy lcc, myl!slment to financial genius like the madam. The women customers were brought to her by delusive advertise ments promising enormous gains, yet their univc, ,s;l experience was that of losses. For several weeks Inspector Byrnes has received complaints about Mrs. La Touche from her confiding victims. But it was not until yesterday that he succeeded in finding one with nerve enough to make a formal complaint in the matter, though there were many who sorrowfully admitted that their experience with the "banker and broker" had cost them from $500 to $500 each. Ms. Clara Johnson, of No. 156 East Eighty-second street, the complainant, was only induced to come forward by long per- suasion on the part of the inspector. Her complaint was made before Justice German at Jefferson Market yesterday, and 8 War rant was issued. Detectives McManus and Lyman found the woman broker in her office counting up her money, and after her re- sistance to the inspectors blandishments, as already explained, she was locked up.
 Later in the evening when the inspector favored her with another interview in his room, she was rather more inclined to talk. The inspector was not quite so polite. From what she told him and what he already knew, Inspector Byrnes is able to give his prisoners history since 1870. She was then living in Boston as the wife of a man named Warren, where they were both arrested sev- eral times on charges of swindling. They seemed to have escaped conviction. Not long after an experience of, this sort War ren died or disappeared Mrs. Warren thereupon, with littla loss of time, married a man named Dow and opened fashiona- ble boarding house on the Back Bay. Dow did not last long. She retained the name of Mrs. Dow after his death and made it quite well known to the police of the states, east and west, and in Canada. In 1875 she depos- ited in Boston bank certificate of stock of the Michigan Central road, that had been raised from one to sixty shares. A few days later she endeavored to negotiate loan on the basis of sixty shares. But in the mean time the bank had discovered the forgery. She managed to get away and fled to St. John, N. B., where she soon afterward got into trouble through trying to negotiate forged check for $1, 700. She was arrested and tried for this offense, but the jury dis agreed While awaiting her second trial she jumped her bail and sought refuge in the United States.
 After a little trip west Mrs. La Touche opened banking office in Union square, in this city. She did little business, and al opped out of sight, next being heard from in Moyamensing prison, Philadelphia. In 1883 she opened brokers office in Thirty seventh street, this city, and became in- her arrest and imprisonment for two years. She has been free about eight months
 The woman says she became acquainted with Royal La Touche ill Philadelphia in 1881, and has been married to him some time. MT. La Touche called upon Inspector Byrnes in the evening and said that he had been married to the woman only few months. He claims to be in a reputable business at 36 Pine street. He is not unknown to the police, but his only trouble that has resulted in imprisonment was a conviction for bigamy on which he was sent to Sing Sing for three years. He was there from 1883 to 1886.